Hey I just want to tell you guys thank you for taking the time and going to do this. When I was a little kid my friend's dad used to take us up in the mountains. We used to hike 10 miles in to find those trout we used to have to carry his beer in our backpacks. We thought it was messed up because it was so heavy at the beginning and then we just got used to it LOL. You guys are the bomb. Let me tell you you bringing my childhood back. Thank you

Great video. Looks like ya'll had fun!

You guys killed it. That's a bucket list trip for me.

Fantastic video, gents! Glad you saw bears and rattlesnakes! At least they were black bears and not grizzlies! Pretty fish you caught! When you have kids, if you don’t already, you MUST show them this video! Congrats!

I've never been to the Sierra Nevada Range. To go up in the high Sierra was a definite bucket list item, but afraid time and resources have run out. That is fine. I've been blessed to fish other beautiful places with the best of friends. To remember the first species of trout caught, where I netted it and what it ate will remain with me. Now I'll experience The Sierra through your eyes, fishing and digital cameras which ain't too bad. Take care.

Great adventure. Such respect for the fish and the environment. Joy in fly fishing whether a small or large fish. Just wish you would share more about the flies you are using at the time. Safe travels

Not gold, it's a flaky silicate called mica that forms in sheets and can break down into those small bits that looked like gold. Love the video!

@GIGASUSSYCHAD

Ай бұрын

That’s not what they meant 😂

@susanbeauchamp1383

6 күн бұрын

Having spent many summers up in that “High Country” from mapping those trails, keying out flora and fauna, to handing out pamphlets, it is nice to see the public discovering why it’s worth the trek. Please tread gently…

yall gotta go back sometime and do part 2 , this wasbestb probably in the top 10 of your best recorded work. Seriously !

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you!! We may do a part 2 eventually... we have some unfinished business in California. But I doubt it'll be this summer. Thanks for watching!

Awesome fishing guys !!! You guys are catching some majestic, beautiful trout, wow, nice !!!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

Love the native trout 👍

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

You and me both! Thanks for watching

@EstherAndTheStraightRazo-rq8sd

6 күн бұрын

They’re delicious

awesome job on the commentary! enjoyed watching this.

Once again, you two presented a great 3 day adventure. Thanks Jon and Andrew!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

I've said it before, but you and your bro are living the dream! Great video!!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

*Thank you so much for bringing me along. It was fascinating and beautiful trouts it is educational for me but most of all the nature was wonderful that I can almost smell the grass. Once again thank you you all.*

This is an amazing video! Earned my subscription for sure. Would love to see a video of the gear you use for backcountry fly fishing trips like this one! Keep up the good work!

That is just amazing. I would be beyond happy to even look at someplace this beautiful. The thumbnail really doesn't do this piece of art justice.

Dude! Those trout are awesome, might have to plan a trip myself!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

It's worth the trip but come prepared!

EPIC ADVENTURE! And great story! Good work! It will most definitely be great to look back on as the year pass

Stunningly beautiful fish

Wow beautiful landscape and water, not to mention fish. Another superlative video thank you!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching

I live just down the mountains and never knew about the golden trout. Youve inspired a dream for me too!

Great video nice to see u in our neck of the woods. I've made that backpacking trip from Kennedy meadows to the Kern and it was well worth all 20 mil....the trout were amazing. We also encountered bears too in that valley. It's a trip u never forget!!!

@hardmanfishing

11 күн бұрын

That's awesome!! I know I definitely won't forget the trip. It's tough and while I was doing it at times I was a tad bit miserable... but I promise when I look back on the trip it's nothing but fond memories! Thanks for watching

Beautiful fish and scenery.... great adventure! People forget Parts of California beautiful and almost untouched.

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Yep, and those are the best parts of California!

Lmfao dude you have like the same story I do. All my life growing up here in Connecticut I fished for the legendary “golden trout” finally got one, a beautiful 21 inch, what I now know to be a palomino rainbow. After catching it I dug into some research, and imagine my face when I learned that for 20 years, what I thought was a golden trout was really just a mutant from a hatchery in 1955 lol. Now I’d love to do what you’ve done and go out to cali and catch a real golden trout. For now, I’m happy with my golden/palomino rainbow and tiger trout rarities out east here 😉

Good to watch this video again. Awesome adventure with beautiful species.

When I’m older I will be going there. Those fish are worth the travel

You Hardy Boys Slayed 'Em!! 🔪

awesome scenery and fish lads , great video !

Very nice video! Great adventure! Thank you for sharing with us.

The adventure is what keeps us at it.

What a fantastic place, that scenery is gorgeous and so are the fish. Didn't know that the trails were all marked, I thought that you just went where ever you wanted. Bet that the ones you kept tasted as good as they looked cooked over your campfire. Really lovely video.

Good work boys....Reminds me of when I was 20 yrs old and chasing wild trout all over the Sierras...good times

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you! It was a blast for sure. Thanks for watching

@tomrivera8480

21 күн бұрын

Wow that was some impressive angling! You guys make those tight spot shots look easy!?? I also love that the equipment you use really captures the true colors of those fish and the scenery! Well done!👍

mY wEe WEe goEs bOInG bOiNg🗣🗣🔥🔥

Incredible!

Awesome guy's.. plan on yellow stone late summer trip

Hey! I kind of caught one of those today! Just a stocked one though.👍 sweet vid man!

I watched these videos when you first posted them and just as good the second time! You’re in my back yard, love it! My two boys and I are headed up to the back country in two weeks, can’t wait! Awesome video

@hardmanfishing

16 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching the video and glad you enjoyed! Best of luck to your two boys, hope they catch a bunch!

hello most beautiful outstanding video so far thank you for sharing such stunning senerie. tight lines always many blessings.

These videos are awesome, and they have taught me a lot about fly fishing! This looks like a lot of fun! I and some friends are planning to go on some backpacking trips and are planning to catch some golden trout as well. There is some awesome trout fishing here in Wyoming. If you have a chance to fish here, you totally should. You would have an awesome time!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

I will for sure fish Wyoming at some point, If not this year then next! Thanks for watching!

Great video! Very enjoyable - well done! What's that you're using to attach your net to your side by the way?

And just when you think the videos can’t get any better . “Dub V” boys showing how it’s done 👍🏻

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

love it! keep going

made the best out of the situation with the gopro & river being high👍🏻

Awesome video, when you posted the video about the Lahontan Cutthroat, adjacent to the original videos for this, you suggested you also had video about the Paiute Cutthroat, I'd love to see that video too

it is so tough to get into that area. I do it from the eastern side on week long trips. it's a little easier to access. my favorite ways to access the Kern are kearsarge pass, up bubbs Creek, over Forester pass, over to lake south america, down the upper Kern basin to the tyndell cutoff back over to the jmt, over Forester pass, bubbs Creek and out kearsarge pass. another is trail pass to golden trout creek, down to little Whitney meadow, down to the Kern, back up to volcano creek, over to golden trout creek and out trail pass. I've accessed it from the west side via the high sierra trail as well. much harder to hike in and out though.

Fish on guys love it

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Glad you loved it

Fantast video!

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

So fun. Most people have no idea how big America actually is. I've hiked and cruised timber out west. It's not uncommon to not see people for days and that is a good thing. BTW are you sure your related because you look nothing alike...lol

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah for sure. I think we saw one other human being in 4 days, with almost 75 miles hiked in total (if I remember correctly). America is pretty impressive! And yep, born 2.5 years apart LOL

Golden Brotherhood! U Rock.

Good thing you brought your big net for all those monsters your reeling in 😂

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

I use the net to make sure I take care of the fish not because I need it to land them necessarily 😂 thanks for watching!

@44:27 LOOK HOW COLORFULL THESE "STUPID" FISH ARE LOL

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

I use stupid as a term of endearment a lot of times😂

On one of the videos I saw you putting some fancy socks and overlapping those on top of your boots. Please tell us about that "know how" of yours! Thank you! P.S. Awesome places and quality time there! Thanks for sharing!

@coreytohme9861

23 күн бұрын

I believe you are talking about wading socks. Most wading boots are about one size larger than your street shoes to account for the neoprene "stocking foot". When you wet wad without waders, you need something to take up that space. I use a liner or wool hiking sock directly on my feet, then neoprene wading socks, and then finally put by wading boots on. The neoprene wading socks can be left up for skin protection if you are wearing shorts, or folded over to protect your boot laces. I hope that answers your question.

@saul78oldrite

22 күн бұрын

@@coreytohme9861 Thank you.

In the beginning, you were catching the Little Kern golden trout Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei a subspecies of non-native rainbow trout. Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita only reside in the higher elevations at approximately 7,000feet. In 1978, 450 acres of the threatened golden trout habitat became protected under the Golden Trout Wilderness Act after a 40 year battle. Many of us worked tirelessly educating and campaigning under the guidance of Ardis Manly Walker and Phil Pfister, conservationists and biologists respectively.

Awesome vid. What size of fly?

Juvenile rainbows get the yellow indication on their belly that just means they’re really pure golden trout less of dots are on back and there would be punch together

Man you almost stepped on a big ass snake at 15 min 50 sec had me scared as hell

Why are the fish so small? Is it Just because of the small stream?

@RadGhost-gt5sq

Ай бұрын

For the most part yes, from what I know it’s easier for the fish to get bigger the bigger the water. If the fish gets so big in that small stream it would get picked off really easily.

@daveschlom4033

Ай бұрын

The fish up there are in the High Sierra. Winter is long and harsh. They are the right size to survive. You don't fish for them to catch big fish. You do it for their wild beauty.

@SDlobsterman

Ай бұрын

I've fished that area for 4 plus decades, they *do* get a lot bigger, even in the tiny creeks, BUT, it's quite uncommon because the conditions are harsh. Also, Goldens don't get particularly large to begin with. Anything over about 15" is a trophy size for most people.

3:49 It probable isn't... Was that one purpose or did you miss it?

Hey, my net just got a hole in it and am wondering where you got yours😆

Great video! Silly question, but who makes those burnt orange pants?

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

I think those are made by REI

is this the same california trip you guys did last year or is this new?

that near Antalope lake?

8:05 those are salmon par

ur so big and tough and strong

What dates was this filmed??....curious about the high flows?

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

It was last July or maybe August I believe. Not sure on the exact dates I'd have to really look back. But the flows were crazy high last summer even late into the summer.

With flows that high, where did you cross the main Kern?

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

We swam it, real sketchy stuff

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Just kidding just kidding!! There are several bridges across the kern, we had to use one of them. Nobody should ever cross a river like that.

what is the deal with horizontal pixalation?

What rod length and wt were you two using?

What time of year did you go?

thats a lightning trout though right? the big yellow one.

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

No clue what y’all call them but as someone who grew up in the state where they originated… we call them golden rainbow trout 😂 assuming you’re talking about the yellow fish in the intro of the video

@Scottttyboy

Ай бұрын

@@hardmanfishing ya I guess they call them lightning trout here in CA 😅 they really only stock them in our lakes down here in SoCal.

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

@@Scottttyboy Makes sense, you guys have to separate them from your native golden trout... we don't have that issue! 😂

tan king

the little kern is the western sierras...

@hardmanfishing

19 күн бұрын

When you’re right you’re right 😂 that’s my bad. I was on the eastern sierras but that’s not where I was fishing. Can’t really change it now unfortunately

@williemickbillie

19 күн бұрын

@@hardmanfishing all good. That first day looked like all rainbows maybe hybrids, but goldens will look like goldens, if you're unsure then it's not a pure golden. I could send you pictures. The creeks have more pure goldens where as the main rivers are rainbows or hybrids.

3 bear. How many deer? Sad to say the ungulate population is super low in CA due to poor management and poaching.

Still no catch and cook brother

Why do you guys try to net every fish? I’m new to fly fishing and am struggling to understand, because once you go to net them you guys walk right up to the hole and it spooks any other fish in the hole? Doesn’t it?

at 39 minutes I was not relaxed

Do you bring a gun?

@hardmanfishing

12 күн бұрын

Nope, mostly because I wasn't sure what California's gun laws would be and didn't want to deal with it.

So, gay men fishing. All good. Everybody relax 🌈

@hardmanfishing

12 күн бұрын

Uhhhh Andrew is my brother... 🤣

Some % of those fish died. Just leave them alone and fish the stockers.

@hardmanfishing

Ай бұрын

Not necessarily true... if you take care of the fish they almost always survive. Plus it's totally legal to keep and eat them as far as I can tell. So obviously the state of California does not deem the golden trout to be in bad shape. And stocked trout do nothing more than take the place of wild trout and arguably cause more harm... in fact the kern river rainbow is a species of concern BECAUSE of stocking. In other words this comment is totally backwards, you should stop supporting stocking these waters and instead fish for the native trout and show the state what value they bring. Thanks for watching.

It's called fools gold. Pyrite